Traditionally, it has been the cognitive-developmental approach that has dominated moral judgment research. Specifically, it has been Kohlberg’s theory of moral development (1969, 1986) that has provided the theoretical framework for much of the research in the field. According to the Kohlbergian perspective, individuals are rational agents who engage in conscious deliberation in order to reach a moral judgment or decision. In contrast to this, the social intuitionist model of moral judgment (Haidt, 2001; Haidt & Bjorklund, 2007) proposes that it is the individual’s immediate affective reactions to events are the overriding cause of moral judgment. In addition to this, the model proposes that the social context is an equally important determinant of moral judgment. Emergent group norms are said to directly shape the moral judgments of the individual, with the moral judgments of friends, allies and acquaintances having a direct bearing on the moral judgments one makes, even those made and held privately. In the current thesis, the impact of social persuasion - group norms, audience, and social identity - on moral judgment was investigated, using the methods and meta-theoretical framework of the social identity approach. In Studies 1 (N = 98) and 2 (N = 60) the influence of group norms and level of identification with the reference group on participants’ moral evaluations was assessed. The results of these studies revealed that participants’ evaluation of the target issue (the sex selection of children) was not influenced by the group norms to which they were exposed. In both studies, the interaction between norm and identification was also found to be non-significant. Under investigation in Studies 3, 4, and 5 was the impact of normative influence on participants’ moral evaluations. In Study 3 (N = 186) the impact of group norms, level of identification, and audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluations of morally-tinged scenarios and issues were assessed. Those exposed to a norm portraying the reference group as judgmental tended to be harsher in their evaluations than those exposed to a non-judgmental norm, but the effect was weak and inconsistent. Contrary to expectation, identification and audience were not found to interact with the norm manipulation. Study 4 (N = 93) focused exclusively on the impact of audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluation. Participants evaluated a number of morally-tinged scenarios either alone, under the expectation that their responses would be visible to an audience (with either the opportunity to justify their evaluations, or not), or under the pretext of being connected to a lie-detector. Contrary to expectation, no significant difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found across the four audience conditions. To discount the possibility that the lack of normative influence on moral evaluation obtained in Study 4 was due to methodological limitation (i.e., the audience category was too broad), the selection of participants and the choice of audience were modified for Study 5 (N = 54). In Study 5, Christian students were required to make their moral evaluations under the expectation that their responses would be made visible to either a Christian or student audience. Contrary to expectation, only a subtle effect of audience was found in relation to both the morally tinged issues and the morally tinged scenarios. Participants in the Christian audience condition were found to evaluate only a small number of the issues (3 of 10), and only one of the four scenarios more negatively than those in the student audience condition. In Studies 6 and 7 the impact of social identity factors on participants’ moral evaluations was investigated. In Study 6 (N = 45), the extent to which participants’ moral evaluation were influenced by their social identity was assessed. In this study, participants had either their Christian identity or their student identity made salient when making their evaluations. No difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found between the Christian identity and student identity salience conditions. In Study 7 (N = 68), the extent to which participants’ political identity influenced their moral evaluation of government policy was assessed. Participants (who were either Australian Labor Party supporters or Australian Liberal Party supporters) were led to believe that the policies had been proposed by either the Australian Labor Party or the Australian Liberal Party. It was found that participants’ political affiliation contributed to their moral evaluation of the presented policies. Overall, the current program of studies provides a first step toward understanding the impact that group norms, audience, and social identity factors have on the evaluation component of moral judgment. It suggests that morality is complex, and that moral judgments may be amenable to social influence, albeit weakly. Theoretical and practical implications for this research are discussed with reference to social identity theory and the broader literature on moral psychology.

Traditionally, it has been the cognitive-developmental approach that has dominated moral judgment research. Specifically, it has been Kohlberg’s theory of moral development (1969, 1986) that has provided the theoretical framework for much of the research in the field. According to the Kohlbergian perspective, individuals are rational agents who engage in conscious deliberation in order to reach a moral judgment or decision. In contrast to this, the social intuitionist model of moral judgment (Haidt, 2001; Haidt & Bjorklund, 2007) proposes that it is the individual’s immediate affective reactions to events are the overriding cause of moral judgment. In addition to this, the model proposes that the social context is an equally important determinant of moral judgment. Emergent group norms are said to directly shape the moral judgments of the individual, with the moral judgments of friends, allies and acquaintances having a direct bearing on the moral judgments one makes, even those made and held privately. In the current thesis, the impact of social persuasion - group norms, audience, and social identity - on moral judgment was investigated, using the methods and meta-theoretical framework of the social identity approach. In Studies 1 (N = 98) and 2 (N = 60) the influence of group norms and level of identification with the reference group on participants’ moral evaluations was assessed. The results of these studies revealed that participants’ evaluation of the target issue (the sex selection of children) was not influenced by the group norms to which they were exposed. In both studies, the interaction between norm and identification was also found to be non-significant. Under investigation in Studies 3, 4, and 5 was the impact of normative influence on participants’ moral evaluations. In Study 3 (N = 186) the impact of group norms, level of identification, and audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluations of morally-tinged scenarios and issues were assessed. Those exposed to a norm portraying the reference group as judgmental tended to be harsher in their evaluations than those exposed to a non-judgmental norm, but the effect was weak and inconsistent. Contrary to expectation, identification and audience were not found to interact with the norm manipulation. Study 4 (N = 93) focused exclusively on the impact of audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluation. Participants evaluated a number of morally-tinged scenarios either alone, under the expectation that their responses would be visible to an audience (with either the opportunity to justify their evaluations, or not), or under the pretext of being connected to a lie-detector. Contrary to expectation, no significant difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found across the four audience conditions. To discount the possibility that the lack of normative influence on moral evaluation obtained in Study 4 was due to methodological limitation (i.e., the audience category was too broad), the selection of participants and the choice of audience were modified for Study 5 (N = 54). In Study 5, Christian students were required to make their moral evaluations under the expectation that their responses would be made visible to either a Christian or student audience. Contrary to expectation, only a subtle effect of audience was found in relation to both the morally tinged issues and the morally tinged scenarios. Participants in the Christian audience condition were found to evaluate only a small number of the issues (3 of 10), and only one of the four scenarios more negatively than those in the student audience condition. In Studies 6 and 7 the impact of social identity factors on participants’ moral evaluations was investigated. In Study 6 (N = 45), the extent to which participants’ moral evaluation were influenced by their social identity was assessed. In this study, participants had either their Christian identity or their student identity made salient when making their evaluations. No difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found between the Christian identity and student identity salience conditions. In Study 7 (N = 68), the extent to which participants’ political identity influenced their moral evaluation of government policy was assessed. Participants (who were either Australian Labor Party supporters or Australian Liberal Party supporters) were led to believe that the policies had been proposed by either the Australian Labor Party or the Australian Liberal Party. It was found that participants’ political affiliation contributed to their moral evaluation of the presented policies. Overall, the current program of studies provides a first step toward understanding the impact that group norms, audience, and social identity factors have on the evaluation component of moral judgment. It suggests that morality is complex, and that moral judgments may be amenable to social influence, albeit weakly. Theoretical and practical implications for this research are discussed with reference to social identity theory and the broader literature on moral psychology.

Traditionally, it has been the cognitive-developmental approach that has dominated moral judgment research. Specifically, it has been Kohlberg’s theory of moral development (1969, 1986) that has provided the theoretical framework for much of the research in the field. According to the Kohlbergian perspective, individuals are rational agents who engage in conscious deliberation in order to reach a moral judgment or decision. In contrast to this, the social intuitionist model of moral judgment (Haidt, 2001; Haidt & Bjorklund, 2007) proposes that it is the individual’s immediate affective reactions to events are the overriding cause of moral judgment. In addition to this, the model proposes that the social context is an equally important determinant of moral judgment. Emergent group norms are said to directly shape the moral judgments of the individual, with the moral judgments of friends, allies and acquaintances having a direct bearing on the moral judgments one makes, even those made and held privately. In the current thesis, the impact of social persuasion - group norms, audience, and social identity - on moral judgment was investigated, using the methods and meta-theoretical framework of the social identity approach. In Studies 1 (N = 98) and 2 (N = 60) the influence of group norms and level of identification with the reference group on participants’ moral evaluations was assessed. The results of these studies revealed that participants’ evaluation of the target issue (the sex selection of children) was not influenced by the group norms to which they were exposed. In both studies, the interaction between norm and identification was also found to be non-significant. Under investigation in Studies 3, 4, and 5 was the impact of normative influence on participants’ moral evaluations. In Study 3 (N = 186) the impact of group norms, level of identification, and audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluations of morally-tinged scenarios and issues were assessed. Those exposed to a norm portraying the reference group as judgmental tended to be harsher in their evaluations than those exposed to a non-judgmental norm, but the effect was weak and inconsistent. Contrary to expectation, identification and audience were not found to interact with the norm manipulation. Study 4 (N = 93) focused exclusively on the impact of audience expectation on participants’ moral evaluation. Participants evaluated a number of morally-tinged scenarios either alone, under the expectation that their responses would be visible to an audience (with either the opportunity to justify their evaluations, or not), or under the pretext of being connected to a lie-detector. Contrary to expectation, no significant difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found across the four audience conditions. To discount the possibility that the lack of normative influence on moral evaluation obtained in Study 4 was due to methodological limitation (i.e., the audience category was too broad), the selection of participants and the choice of audience were modified for Study 5 (N = 54). In Study 5, Christian students were required to make their moral evaluations under the expectation that their responses would be made visible to either a Christian or student audience. Contrary to expectation, only a subtle effect of audience was found in relation to both the morally tinged issues and the morally tinged scenarios. Participants in the Christian audience condition were found to evaluate only a small number of the issues (3 of 10), and only one of the four scenarios more negatively than those in the student audience condition. In Studies 6 and 7 the impact of social identity factors on participants’ moral evaluations was investigated. In Study 6 (N = 45), the extent to which participants’ moral evaluation were influenced by their social identity was assessed. In this study, participants had either their Christian identity or their student identity made salient when making their evaluations. No difference in participants’ moral evaluations was found between the Christian identity and student identity salience conditions. In Study 7 (N = 68), the extent to which participants’ political identity influenced their moral evaluation of government policy was assessed. Participants (who were either Australian Labor Party supporters or Australian Liberal Party supporters) were led to believe that the policies had been proposed by either the Australian Labor Party or the Australian Liberal Party. It was found that participants’ political affiliation contributed to their moral evaluation of the presented policies. Overall, the current program of studies provides a first step toward understanding the impact that group norms, audience, and social identity factors have on the evaluation component of moral judgment. It suggests that morality is complex, and that moral judgments may be amenable to social influence, albeit weakly. Theoretical and practical implications for this research are discussed with reference to social identity theory and the broader literature on moral psychology.

Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse s'intéressent à l'intime relation entre la rationalité de l'homme et sa conscience de la mort. Ils utilisent conjointement deux théories, la Théorie de la Gestion de la Terreur, et la théorie Dual-Process de la pensée. La Théorie de la Gestion de la Terreur décrit les mécanismes qui se déclenchent lorsque des pensées liées à notre propre mort sont activées. De façon importante, ces mécanismes consomment des ressources mentales que la théorie Dual-Process identifie comme nécessaires à la pensée rationnelle. Sommes-nous dès lors capables de raisonner de manière rationnelle lorsque nous pensons à notre propre mort ? En d'autres termes, pouvons-nous utiliser correctement notre capacité analytique lorsque des pensées liées à notre propre mort sont conscientes ? Les personnes ayant de grandes capacités cognitives sont elles mieux armées pour penser à la mort ? Quel est le réel impact des pensées de mort sur notre raisonnement, mais aussi sur nos jugements et décisions ? Nous cherchons à répondre à ces questions dans différents domaines de la pensée : les inférences logiques, les décisions stratégiques, et le jugement moral. Différents protocoles expérimentaux sont mis en œuvre dans le but d'explorer de manière exhaustive l'influence des pensées de mort lorsque nous devons utiliser ces hautes fonctions cognitives. Les résultats mettent en lumière de sinistres, mais fascinants effets et ce sur toutes nos activités nécessitant des ressources cognitives. De manière générale, les participants qui ont pensé à leur propre mort semblent ne plus avoir accès à leurs ressources cognitives et montrent par conséquent des comportements moins élaborés, intuitifs et heuristiques, au détriment des règles normatives de raisonnement. Ces découvertes laissent apparaître un étrange paradoxe en termes d'évolution et d'adaptation puisque nos capacités analytiques semblent finalement nous servir à oublier ce qu'elles nous ont justement fait découvrir. / The work presented in this thesis is concerned with the intimate relationship between human rationality and the consciousness of death. They jointly use two theories, that is, the terror management theory, and the dual-process theory of thinking. Terror management theory describes the mechanisms that are triggered when thoughts related to our own death are activated. Importantly, these mechanisms consume mental resources that the dual-process theory identifies as necessary for rational thought. Therefore, are we able to think rationally when thinking about our own death? In other words, can our analytical skills be efficiently used when thoughts of our own death are conscious? Are people with high cognitive abilities better equipped to think about death? What is the real impact of these thoughts on our reasoning, but also on our judgments and decisions? We seek to answer these questions in different areas of thought: logical inferences, strategic decisions, and moral judgment. Different experimental protocols are implemented in order to comprehensively explore the influence of thoughts of death while using these higher order cognitive functions. The results highlight grim, but fascinating effects on all our activities that require to mobilize cognitive resources. In general, participants who thought about their own death seem to no longer have access to their resources and therefore exhibit less elaborate behaviors, based on intuitions or heuristics, at the expense of normative rules of reasoning. These findings let appear a strange paradox in terms of evolution and adaptation because our analytical capacities finally seem to serve us to forget precisely what they made us discover.

The main aim of this PhD research was to explore the cultural differences in moral judgment, moral behaviour, moral identity, and cultural values between Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom. Furthermore, I was interested in the psychological factors affecting morality in those two cultures. The first study aimed to achieve the following objectives: to understand people’s moral judgment in Saudi Arabia and the UK, to investigate whether and how personality traits and cultural values affect moral judgment in five moral foundations (harm avoidance, justice, ingroup, authority, purity), and to investigate whether personality traits and cultural values are related differently or similarly across Saudi and UK cultures. The findings of the study revealed that Saudi and British participants differed with regard to their foundation-specific moral judgments. Saudi participants were more likely to endorse moral foundations in the domains of intergroup relations, authority, and purity. However, there were no cross-cultural differences in the domains of harm avoidance and justice. Moreover, the results showed that the effect of personality traits and cultural values on morality varied. Harm and fairness foundations were predicted by personality traits while ingroup, authority, purity foundations were predicted by values. The second study investigated whether foundation-related moral behaviour was affected by moral judgment and people’s moral identity in a cross-cultural context comparing adults from the UK and Saudi Arabia. Findings of this study resulted in no cross-cultural differences between the two samples concerning moral judgment in the care and justice foundations. Furthermore, no cultural differences were found between the two samples concerning moral behaviour in the five foundations. In addition, moral identity mediated the relationship between moral judgment and allocations in the dictator game. The third study investigated the relationship between (dis-) honest behaviour, moral judgment and moral identity in two different cultures, namely Saudi Arabia and the UK. It has been found that there are no statistically significant differences in honest behaviour between Saudi Arabia and the UK. Furthermore, deception was not predicted or correlated significantly with any of the five foundation-specific moral judgments across both cultural samples. However, culture moderated the relationship between deception and moral judgment in harm and authority moral foundations. Additionally, moral sensitivity did not mediate the relationship between moral judgments and dishonesty. The forth study explored the link between moral foundation violations (harm, justice, ingroup, authority, and purity) and anger, disgust, sadness, apathy, guilt, contempt, shame, resentment, and embarrassment emotions. Findings showed that the violations of harm, and justice foundations triggered anger and Violations of purity foundation triggered disgust. The results show no cultural differences in the assignments of the violations made by both samples. Saudi and UK participants’ classifications were in agreement with the original classifications of the 40 violations by Graham et al. (2009). However, we found cross-cultural differences in the relationship between emotions and moral foundation violations.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-11-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:32:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 kawashima_ra_me_mar.pdf: 425272 bytes, checksum: a30f4db1db068f9dd07186045cab71dd (MD5) / O tema ética e moral na escola tem sido o foco de inúmeras pesquisas e trabalhos publicados na área da Educação e da Psicologia. Ao mesmo tempo em que todos reconhecem a importância deste tema, pouca relevância tem sido dada ao tema dentro da escola. Nos estudos em psicologia moral, os termos ética e moral correlacionam-se com justiça, do mesmo modo em que foram abordados por Piaget (1994) com a teoria da moralidade infantil; como fez Turiel (1983) com a teoria dos domínios; e também como fizeram os PCNs, quando trazem o tema da justiça a ser abordado na escola. A intenção deste trabalho é abordar a questão da discriminação entre os estudantes e entender como são tratadas as pesquisas sobre o tema. Tomamos como viés de análise a violência na escola, a violência no Brasil e como a ética e a moral são praticadas no âmbito escolar. Dentro deste cenário, o estudo teve como objetivo investigar formas e evolução de pensamentos e condutas de discriminação, visando analisar como esta conduta é categorizada, e compreender seu julgamento sócio moral. O grupo pesquisado compreende crianças com 4, 5 e 6 anos de idade da Educação Infantil, da cidade de São José do Rio Preto. Como instrumentos de coleta de dados, esta pesquisa utiliza a observação e a entrevista clínica. A entrevista tem como tema uma história baseada em acontecimentos retirados do período de observação das atividades das próprias crianças investigadas. O primeiro passo revela que crianças pequenas perpetuam condutas discriminatórias, mais os meninos que as meninas. Verificou-se que a maioria das crianças considera a conduta de conflito errada dentro do domínio moral, determinada por heteronomia e obediência à autoridade. / The topic ethics and moral in the school has been object of study of several researches and papers that has been published in the field of Education and Psychology. While every researcher recognizes the importance of the subject, not much attention has been given to it. In the studies carried out in Moral Psychology, ethics and moral are related to justice. The same correlation is established by Piaget (1994) in the theory for moral development of young children; by Turiel (1983) in the domain theory, and also in the PCNs (Brazilian National Curricular Parameters) when the topic justice is mentioned as subject to be explored in the school. The main purpose of this paper is to approach the question of the discrimination among students and to understand the way researches in the field are carried out. We conducted our investigation by examining the violence in the school, violence in Brazil and how ethics and moral are put into practice in the school. Taking that into consideration, the study had as main objective the investigation of the development of forms and thoughts and discriminatory behavior in children, trying to understand the way this behavior is ranked, and its social-moral judgment comprehended. The group studied is comprised of children in the ages of 4, 5 and 6 in the Infant School in the city of São José do Rio Preto, State of São Paulo - Brazil. The data collection instruments employed were observation and clinical interview. The topic of the interview was selected having in mind the period of observation. It was chosen according to the activities developed by the children. The first step revealed that young children perpetuate discriminatory behavior. Boys, more than girls, have a more prominent tendency to discriminate. It was also observed that most part of the children consider the question of conflict situation in the moral dominion as something wrong, when determined by heteronomy and obedience to authority.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:02:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lepre_rm_dr_mar.pdf: 506398 bytes, checksum: 7bb0af567ad38ea2429aa2f9135d362d (MD5) / O uso abusivo de álcool por adolescentes é uma questão que vem preocupando os envolvidos com a Educação, pois as conseqüências desse fato têm invadido os bancos escolares trazendo sérios prejuízos ao processo ensino-aprendizagem e ao adolescente que abusa. Com o objetivo de contribuir para o debate na busca de uma intervenção efetiva que possa ser utilizada, sobretudo nas escolas, desenvolvemos uma pesquisa onde procuramos detectar a possível relação entre uso abusivo de álcool e raciocínio moral. Para tanto, tivemos como participantes alunos do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública da cidade de Assis (SP) que vêm se envolvendo com uso abusivo de álcool. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, selecionamos os participantes através da aplicação de dois instrumentos que avaliam o uso e as conseqüências do uso abusivo de álcool, denominados Audit e Rapi. Dos 171 alunos que responderam aos questionários, 27 deles tiveram resultados que revelam uso abusivo de álcool com conseqüências negativas. Esses adolescentes foram entrevistados tendo como referencial a teoria de Lawrence Kohlberg (1992) onde buscamos identificar seu nível e estágio de desenvolvimento moral (analisando sua teoria ética, seus valores, etc) por meio de uma entrevista semi-estruturada proposta por Kohlberg e colaboradores: a moral judgment interview (MJI) e a concepção que esses têm do seu ato de beber e do uso abusivo de álcool. Os resultados obtidos nos apontam que esses adolescentes apresentam um nível de raciocínio moral pré-convencional e convencional, sendo que a maioria (56%) encontra-se no estágio 02 do nível pré-convencional. Dessa forma, concluímos que a prevenção possa ser pensada por meio da Educação Moral como uma proposta de intervenção efetiva contra o uso abusivo de álcool, buscando a construção da autonomia e, conseqüentemente, uma maior reflexão acerca do envolvimento com as drogas. / The abuse of alcohol by teenagers is an issue which has caused the worry of those involved in education, since its consequences have affected schools and caused serious damage to the teaching-learning process and consequently to those teenagers who abuse it. In order to contribute to the discussion of such an issue and to try to find out an effective intervention which may be used mainly in schools, we have developed a research in which we tried to establish a relation between the abuse of alcohol and moral judgment. Therefore, our subjects were junior/senior high school students attending a public school in Assis (SP) who have got into such a trouble. In order to achieve the aims of our research we have chosen the subjects by applying two indices called Audit and Rapi, which evaluate the use and the consequences of alcohol abuse. 171 students have completed the questionnaires, and 27 of them presented results confirming the abuse of alcohol with serious consequences. Such teenagers were interviewed seeing that the Lawrence Kohlberg's theory (1992) was used to identify their level and phase of moral development (analyzing their ethical theory, values, etc), by using semi-structured interview proposed by Kohlberg and his collaborators: the Moral Judgment Interview (MJI) and the conception they have about drinking. The results obtained in the research reveal that such teenagers present a pre-conventional and conventional level of moral judgment, seeing that most of them (56%) have reached the 02 phase of the pre-conventional level. Thus we come to the conclusion that prevention should be implemented by means of Social Awareness viewed as an effective intervention proposal against the abuse of alcohol, aiming at developing autonomy and, consequently, at encouraging them to ponder over their involvement with drugs.

Orientador: Mário Sérgio Vasconcelos / Banca: Elizabeth Piemonte Constantino / Banca: Maria de Fátima Araújo / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa realizamos um estudo sócio-moral cujo objetivo foi verificar quais regras e noções de justiça são abstraídas por crianças de rua submetidas à apreciação de uma situação hipotética de conflito envolvendo agressão. Utilizando o método clínico de Piaget e tendo por base suas idéias sobre o juízo moral, observamos e entrevistamos 20 crianças de rua, de sete a treze anos, do sexo do sexo masculino, que freqüentam uma Casa Abrigo localizada na cidade de Jaboticabal (SP). Os dados foram analisados e classificados conformes as tendências de desenvolvimento moral e noções de justiça propostas por Piaget. Os resultados mostraram que as crianças, diante de uma situação de agressão, demonstram mais características heterônomas em suas respostas. As noções de justiça concentram-se entre retributivas e distributivas. Conclui-se que a agressão é uma característica enraizada na formação da moral da criança de rua e que influência fortemente o seu desenvolvimento. Sendo a agressão uma poderosa forma aprendida de resolver problemas em seu contexto de vida, nela espelha-se para solucionar os conflitos do cotidiano. / Abstract: In this research we carried out a sociomoral study whose objective was to verify which rules and notions of justice are abstracted by street children subject to observation from a hypothetical situation of conflict involving assault. Applying the clinical method of Piaget and having as base his ideas about moral judgment, we observed and interviewed 20 male street children, from seven to thirteen years old, who often stay in a shelter located in the city of Jaboticabal (SP). The data were analyzed and classified according to the trends of moral development and notions of justice proposed by Piaget. The results showed that the children, under a situation of assault, exhibit more self-serving cognitive distortion characteristics in their responses. The notions of justice constrict in rewarding and distributing ones. We can conclude that the assault is an embedded characteristic in the moral formation of the street child, and that affects directly the child's development. Once the learned pattern to solve problems in the child's life context is the assault , it is in that that the he or she rests to resolve his or her everyday conflicts. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:38:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissertacaoLianaGdoVale.pdf: 498432 bytes, checksum: 1376528b4395d6a77ac9442f3410c2d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar, em um contexto psicogenético, os juízos de crianças e adolescentes relacionados à generosidade e averiguar o lugar ocupado por essa virtude no universo moral dos participantes. Participaram desta pesquisa 30 alunos de uma escola pública do município de Vitória ES, com idades entre 7 e 13 anos, igualmente divididos quanto ao sexo. Realizamos entrevistas individuais de acordo com o método clínico proposto por Piaget (1926/s.d.; 1932/1994). Utilizamos como instrumentos histórias-dilema que abordam temas referentes à generosidade. Os resultados obtidos permitiram-nos verificar que, quando a generosidade é contraposta à satisfação do próprio interesse, a opção pela ação generosa predomina em todas as idades pesquisadas. Ao contrapormos a generosidade à obediência à autoridade, todavia, a opção pela obediência prevalece na idade de 7 anos e diminui nas faixas etárias seguintes. O tipo de vínculo ou a sua ausência influencia os juízos da maior parte dos participantes de todas as idades no que diz respeito à manifestação de generosidade para com o outro. Em todas as faixas etárias estudadas, a maioria dos entrevistados indica a conversa como conseqüência da ausência de generosidade, mas a porcentagem dessa resposta é menor na idade de 7 anos e aumenta no decorrer das demais faixas de idade investigadas. Podemos afirmar, portanto, que a generosidade faz parte do universo moral de crianças e adolescentes, que, embora considerem sua falta digna de reprovação em algumas situações, não indicam a punição como conseqüência dessa falta. Este trabalho contribui para a expansão do campo de pesquisas sobre a moralidade e oferece importantes subsídios para propostas de educação moral que contemplem virtudes como a generosidade. / In this case study, we investigated, on a psychogenetic context, the judgment of children and adolescents related to generosity and researched the place occupied by this virtue in the moral universe of the participants. Thirty (30) students of a public school from Vitória ES took part in this research, their age group varying between 7 and 13 years old, equally divided as to gender. We performed individual interviews according to the clinical method proposed by Piaget (1926/s.d.; 1932/1994). We used as instruments history-dilemmas that dealt with themes referring to generosity. The obtained results allowed us to verify that, when generosity was counter posed to the satisfaction of one s own interest, the option for the generous action was predominant in all the age groups researched. When counter posing generosity to the obedience of authority, however, the option for obedience prevailed in the age group of the seven years old and diminished on the following age groups. This type of link or the absence of it influenced the judgment of the majority of the participants of all ages as to what concerned the manifestation of generosity towards the other. In all age groups studied, the majority of the interviewed indicated conversation as a consequence of the absence of generosity, but the percentage of this answer is lower on the 7 years old group and increased on the other researched age groups. We could therefore affirm that generosity is a part of the moral universe of children and adolescents, who, although considering its lack in some situations worthy of disapproval, do not indicate punishment as a consequence for this flaw. This case study contributes for the expansion of the research field on morality and offer important subsidies for the proposals of moral education that might contemplate virtues such as generosity.

Patterns of moral judgment exhibited by institutional candidates and fellows in the American Council on Education Fellows Program in Leadership for Higher Education 1988/1989 and 1989/1990 were explored in this study. The fellowship program selection process produced a group of institutional candidates with the high level of moral judgment development necessary for successful leadership in higher education administration. The goals of the program may be best served by minor improvements which will enhance a sound process. The results indicate that moral judgment development was not a significant factor in the selection of fellows. Salary and years of administrative experience, however, were related to selection. Candidates with higher salaries were more likely to be selected as fellows and tended to have lower levels of moral judgment development. The study revealed that there are variables affecting the selection and further investigation is necessary to determine which variables affect the selection and if they contribute to the goals of the fellowship program. Participation in the fellowship program did not significantly affect the fellows' level of moral judgment development as a group. The fellowship program did, however, have a positive impact on the upper third subgroup of fellows and a negative impact on the lower third subgroup. The performance of the upper third indicated that they have the potential to make a significant contribution to higher education administration. The middle third subgroup's performance indicated it is in a position to benefit significantly from program adjustments which enhance the fellows' awareness and broaden their perspective of the social milieu, within which higher education functions. Performance of the lower third indicated that the fellowship program might be adapted to meet the needs of this subgroup. Further study of other variables separating these three subgroups is needed. A longitudinal study could be completed to determine if candidates in the three subgroups went on to make the contributions in higher education administration this study implied they were equipped to make.